I was there on time if not 4 hours early (I might have fallen asleep so had to stay awake)
I went through that announcement page in seconds looking for somewhere to order . . .
and clicked both ordering addresses - the industrial servers were already gridlocked
within 20 to 30 seconds of the Rpi announcement.

I was there on time if not 4 hours early (I might have fallen asleep so had to stay awake)
I went through that announcement page in seconds looking for somewhere to order . . .
and clicked both ordering addresses - the industrial servers were already gridlocked
within 20 to 30 seconds of the Rpi announcement.

I hope so, but I'm not sure.
It's a problem of the language. I didn't know the right english word.

confirmed order = Auftragsbestätigung.
What I got was a "Auftragseingangsbestätigung" with a commission number, which only means that they received my order. If the products are really available, I get a 'right' order confirmation. So I'm as cute as before

Hoping and waiting and waiting and hoping...

Although I know it's not so important (life goes on), for a long time I wasn't so excited about an order.

I could not get to the order stage and I wonder if it is because I am using
ghostery and no redirect plugin for Seamonkey
- not something I normally do . . . ah well . . .

Even so we were promised free development boards
I am loath to chase the Rpi foundation up as they are no doubt
exhausted. I was trying to follow on twitter and it was trending
and information overload ensued . . .

I'll let the fruit settle and try again to get what is
undoubtedly the must have geekery for the confirmed penguin.

Congratulations to everyone who got an order. _________________Puppy WIKI

Tee hee. Were the early clickers left for howling? Too cruel
Raspberry Pi is a small foundation - not a billion dollar corp.
They have done well to generate such astonishing interest.
Was on the BBC 6PM news yesterday.

What Rpi have done, very kindly is allowed everyone worldwide
to have access to the hardware. In fact when someone said,
'what if someone steals and clones your idea?' Eben Uptons response was,
'Great!'

What may have happened is servers in other parts of the world
did not go down and so people were able to move beyond 'Express an interest'
- which I have now done twice for each supplier.

Good to hear from John - what adventures he is having travelling the world
Having murgaLua on PARM would be great. The language was in several versions
of Puppy. Yep we have supported tcl (pronounced tickle) PuppyBasic
(there really is such a language) and all manner of BASIC's
http://puppylinux.org/wikka/PuppyBasic

We have to have an 'ARM development environment' and Barryk has an Rpi on order
(as well as two other ARM boards).
Others will be taunting us when their boards arrive
and they get to run any ISO's Puppy produces

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and now an interlude for some Buddha Dharma

Quote:

'desire is the source of all suffering.' [by not anon. (Not recently.)]

The Buddha said that
and also said:

Quote:

Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle,
and the life of the candle will not be shortened.
Happiness never decreases by being shared.

We all feel - desire, anger, sorrow etc
It is what we do with it . . .
Desire and excitement for Rpi arises
and (we Buddhists) let it go
We don't hang on to it and let it dominate our own
well being . . .

Can it run Puppy?
Can I use it with a TV card?
An external USB HDD or Flash Drive?
How many USB sockets does it have?
I'd like to use my "smart" 32-inch Sony TV as a monitor [HDMI connected] with a new/small PC, and record, rewind, fast-forward TV programs.

Can it run Puppy?
By the time you get it, you should be able to yes, right now it would be Fedora or Debian.
Can I use it with a TV card?
You can use it with a TV card (to see the output on your PC)But if you mean use a TV card with it, to record/view TV ...
That may be possible (something that I don't think has been tried yet).
Recording may be asking too much (realtime video compression).
An external USB HDD or Flash Drive?
Yes, but not to boot from I believe ...
Also LAN and USB traffic go together on this board, so one will slow the other down.
Not an issue for you I guess, as you did not mention LAN
How many USB sockets does it have?
Two.
I'd like to use my "smart" 32-inch Sony TV as a monitor [HDMI connected] with a new/small PC, and record, rewind, fast-forward TV programs.
Might be asking a bit much of the PI at this stage